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Volume IV, Number 40 Navy Yard, Mare Island- Vallejo, California 2 October 1937
New Orleans - Houston Smoker From An Eyewitness
On August 23 at 1254, G W. Jack­son,
SK1c, U. S. N., and I w~ re on the
second floor of the Wing On building
at which time the Sincere building
across the street was bombed. At the
minute the bomb expoded the sensa­tion
experienced was the same as
standing on the deck of a battleship
firing a broadside, but of greater in­tensity.
We were both knocked to our
knees from the concussion. We got up
took stock of ourselves discovered we
were unhurt except that Jackson was
slightly cut on the head and leg. I
pulled a piece of glass out of his head
about a quarter of an inch long. We
then looked around discovered all who
were not injured or killed had run
for the stairs. We saw many people
lying all over the place apparently
dead. We then ~ eard a Chinese girl
saying, " My eyes, I can't see." We
moved debris, got to her, discovered
one of her eyes gone and glass stick­ing
through the other eyelid into the
eye. She was bleeding all over from
severe cuts. We picked her up and car­ried
her to an ambulance which had
just arrived as we emerged from the
door. In making our way out of the
building it was necessary to stop a
couple times and move things out of
our way Apparently every show case
on both the first and second floors
were demolished and stock scattered
in all directions. When we arrived on
the first floor not a form of life could
be seen but many bodies lying every­where
in pools of blood. It was our im­pression
that all on the ground floor
had been killed because the bodies be­ing
carried out seemed lifeless. On the
sidewalk I helped pick up a man with
( Continued on Page 4.)
Morton
Hill
Martel
Bailey
Robb
The Houston boxers have been work­ing
out for about two weeks now and
are making good progress. The re­mainder
of the squad includes some
old timers and some new hands. Aligo,
the Captain's steward, is a veteran
fighter weighing in at 149. Cardinelli
at 123 lbs. is a Golden Glove product
who shows great promise. Wauk, Wil­son,
and Brown are new comers who
are showing up well.
The Houston wrestlers under the
leadership of " Headlock" are showing
up very well during their " workouts"
at the Y. M. C. A. The squad still has
five veterans from last year's team.
The Houston had four men in the semi­final
of the Cruisers which was not
bad for a team which started out with
eight men at the beginning of Fleet
( Continued on Page 3.)
The tentative matches are:
Boxing
New Orleans Houston
Loss 145lbs Martin 143 lbs
Anthony 165lbs Wilson 157lbs
Green 175 lbs Hill 175lbs
Fortunado 175 lbs Harris 165lbs
Inman Heavy Gregory Heavy
Wrestling
155 lbs Beckwith or Folta
156 Ibs Pratt
160lbs Fordemwalt
160 lbs Freeman
170 lbs Miller or Piemel
Old Ironsides
Tell a sailor that there are ten mil­lion
stars in the sky and he will be­lieve
you; show him a sign reading
" Fresh Paint," and he will have to
find out for himself.
While cruising against British com­merce,
Captain Isaac Hull in the 55­gun
frigate, Constitution, met Captain
Dacres in the British frigate Guer­riere,
of 49 guns, about 700 miles off
Boston on August 19, 1812. The fire of
the Constitution was much more ef­fective
than that of her enemy and
Hull mansuvered his ship so as to
cross the bow of the Guerriere, sub­jecting
her to a " raking" fire and en­tirely
dismasting her. After 30 min­utes
Dacres, utterly helpless, was
forced to surrender. This was the first
frigate action of the war and the vic­tory
did much to encourage the people
of the United States. Because of the
little damage which she received, the
Constitution was nicknamed Old Iron­sides.
In 1828 she was to be put out
of commission and to be scrapped but
was saved from this fate by Oliver
Wendell Holmes' famous poem, " Old
Ironsides," which aroused public in­terest
in her. In recent years she was
restored at the Navy Yard, Boston,
and since July 1933, has cruised to
many ports on both coasts.
T HE HOUSTON boxers and wrestlers will meet teams from the NEW OR­LEANS
next Wednesday night at eight o.' clock. The place will be the Navy
Y. M. C. A. in Vallejo.
A good card has been arranged which will include five bouts each of wrest­ling
and boxing, and in addition something in entertainment will be offered by
Mr. Thor Erickson, superintendent of
the " Y."